Now I don't want you to think that what I have to tell you tonight about TVs is just a matter of personal opinion. It is based on over 500 cases who have replied to a rather extensive questionnaire concerning their personal histories. When this group consisted of only 387 I presented the data at the Honolulu meeting the American Psychological Association in 1965. Copies of this survey are available on the literature table. The figures I will give you in this paper are based on the 504 cases but the percentages are about the same. Much of what was found in this survey is not in agreement with what is to be found in the literature and this will be pointed out. To the various objections that may be raised to questionnairs as research tools may I say that: (1) 504 cases is considerably more than all the cases in all the world's medical literature for all past history combined. The results should therefore warrant serious consideration, and (2) whatever information is in the literature has been written by Doctors, and Psychologists based on what they have learned from patients - individuals sufficiently disturbed, in trouble with the law or with wives or parents that they sought or were sent for professional help. As statements about specific patients the reports are justified, but the conclusions drawn are open to serious question when claimed to be valid general observations on the pattern itself. This assertion is based on the fact that in the 504 cases in this series only 119 or 24% had ever seen a psychiatrist at all, and only 43 or 9% of the total undertook what was considered as serious treatment. From this it is evident that such data as is in the literature is both biased in favor of more seriously disturbed individuals and incomplete in that it comes from a very small segment of the transvestic population.

What are transvestites actually like? First let me say that in most cases you would not know one if you saw one. We do not have or generally show anything in our masculine life that reveals our interests. In fact we take considerable pains to conceal them. It is quite possible that some friend, colleague or business associate is given to slipping into something pretty and frilly when the occasion permits. Occupationally, about 1/3 of the group were involved in the three catagories of labor (including both skilled and unskilled) business and the arts, and technical-professional. The occupations of their fathers showed about the same distribution. 17% of them were in business for

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